Henry Mancini (April 16, 1924 - June 14, 1994), was an Academy Award winning American composer, conductor and arranger. He is remembered particularly for being a composer of film and television scores. Mancini also won a record number of Grammy awards, including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995. His best-known work is the jazz-idiom theme to "The Pink Panther" film series. Wikipedia
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Between 1958 and 1964, Mancini so dominated the television and film music scene that everything else seemed to be either an attempt to clone his sound or a reaction against it. www.spaceagepop.com/mancini.htm
Biography by Kenneth M. Cassidy & Stephen Thomas Erlewine If the recognition of one's peers is the true measure of success, then few men are as successful as composer, arranger, and conductor Henry Mancini. www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:kud7ylojxpsb
Henry Mancini, late 1980s. Introduction Henry Mancini is someone who certainly needs no introduction to anyone familiar with his television and motion picture scores which he wrote year after year for five decades. bjbear71.com/Hank/collection.html
